On May 31st, 2019 a panel of ten FDA officials, including the acting Commissioner, Dr. Ned Sharpless, sat for hours listening to over 100...

Burdock Group continues to encourage graduates and undergraduates to pursue a career in food ingredient safety and regulations by...

The race is on among ingredient suppliers to find new flavors and taste sensations to satisfy consumer demand for something more exciting...

Introduction Growing meat in a lab for pet food from animal stem cells has many potential benefits including avoidance of legumes or...

A precise characterization of the regulatory category “medical foods” remains elusive to many because it represents a category that is...

Burdock Group continues to encourage undergraduates to pursue a career in food ingredient safety and regulation by offering its Student...

Burdock Group’s IFT 2019 Student Travel Award applications are open to qualified full-time graduate and undergraduate students attending...

As the consumer trend to seek natural products continues to grow, primarily due to their unfounded assumption of safety.

Convenience, avoiding long lines at the grocery store, or giving your loved ones’ an edible gift for Valentine’s Day are a few of the...

With the holidays-related consumption of rich, sweet and ever-so-plentiful cookies, cakes and other sweets quickly fading, and the annual...

The holiday season is in full swing and with it comes the festive decorating and bringing some of the holiday’s traditional plants into...

Burdock Group is now accepting SOT 2019 Student Travel Award applications from qualified full-time graduate and undergraduate students...

Food manufacturing processes and procedures can at times lead to degradation, removal or omission of nutrients typically found in the...

The concept of creating exercise in a pill, which in theory would allow for loss of body fat without a diet or exercise intervention, has...

In response to the increase in caffeinated dietary supplements in the marketplace and public health risks associated with oral intakes of...

On March 28, 2018, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue made an an announcement that new plant varieties produced using genome...

Does the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have the regulatory tools and experience necessary to regulate cell-cultured “meat”? In a...

Burdock Group continues to encourage graduates and undergraduates to pursue a career in food ingredient safety and regulation by offering...

The term “phytonutrient” is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a bioactive plant-derived compound (such as resveratrol)...

The proposed rule for the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (NBFDS) was recently released by the Agricultural Marketing...